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finding any recourse in material happiness, the devotee then engages himself absolutely in pure devotional service

You do not care whether or not I am beautiful or qualified; You are not at all concerned about it. Therefore Your nonattachment for me is not at all astonishing; it is quite natural. Whether You are attached to me or not, may my devotion and attention be always engaged at Your lotus

“As I have already explained, I am not very much interested in family life or love between husband and By nature, I am not very fond of family life, wife, children, home and opulences. Actually, I am interested in self-realization; that gives Me pleasure, and not this family life.”

Although My foster father possessed many hundreds of thousands of cows, I was not the proprietor of even I was simply entrusted with taking care of them and tending them, but I was not the proprietor. Here also I am not the proprietor of anything but am always penniless. You may note also that My devotees are not very opulent; they also are very poor in worldly goods. I think, therefore, that your selection of Me was not very intelligent.

“You have described Yourself as penniless, but this condition is not poverty. Since there is nothing in existence but You, You do not need to possess anything – You Yourself are everything Unlike others, You do not require to purchase anything extraneously. You do not possess anything, but no one is richer than You. Although You do not possess anything, the great demigods who accept prayers and worship from others come

“Besides this, I am not very much polished, even in social etiquette. My behavior with them is not very nice, and I know that you are very conscious of it. I sometimes create a situation with My wives which is not very happy. Because I was trained in a village in My childhood, I am not well acquainted with the etiquette of urban I do not know the way to please a wife with nice words and behavior.

“First of all, you may know that I was so much afraid of Jarāsandha that I could not dare live on the It is not My business to disclose this secret to others, but you must know that I am not very heroic; Still I am not safe, because all the great kings of the land are inimical to Me. Still I could not have any kingdom, nor could I rule as a prince. People are bewildered about My ultimate goal of life; they do not know whether I am a cowherd boy or

“My dear Lord, You have also stated that the richest section of human society does not worship You. I see, therefore, that a great sage like Nārada Muni, who does not possess any material property, is And such persons do not care for anything but Your Lordship.

“My dear honored wife, although I have thousands of wives, I do not think that any one of them can love fixed that even in the presence of many qualified, rich and beautiful men of the royal order, you did not I was surprised to see that you did not utter even a word of protest over this incident. , thinking that I was not coming, you decided to commit suicide and immediately end that body. As far as I am concerned, it is not within My power to repay you for your unalloyed devotion to Me.”

In fact, she could not be pacified until she was promised the whole tree. Rukmiṇī did not mention anything of the incident, however, for she was grave and simply satisfied in In this case, because Kṛṣṇa could not find any fault with Rukmiṇī, for she was very grave and always Thus Kṛṣṇa did not address her as Rukmiṇī; He addressed her this time as the princess. Although not all of them were kings, all possessed the opulence and riches of the kingly order; they

Usually a person does not establish a marital relationship with a person who is either higher or lower My dear daughter of the king of Vidarbha, I think you did not consider very sagaciously before your marriage That was not very rightly done.

Kṛṣṇa pacified Rukmiṇī by His sweet words, she could understand that what He had formerly said was not She said, “My dear lotus-eyed Lord, Your statement that we are not a fit combination is completely right It is not possible for me to come to an equal level with You, for You are the reservoir of all qualities I do not think that the so-called royal families are kings of the material world.

Śiśupāla, Śālva, Jarāsandha, Dantavakra and even your elder brother Rukmī, are My enemies; they do not All these princes were very much puffed up with their worldly possessions and did not care a fig for

Not only are You bereft of supremacy over the material world, but even Your servants, those who have Your servants do not like material supremacy, so what to speak of You? My dear Lord, Your statement that You do not act as an ordinary person with a particular aim in life

“My dear daughter of King Vidarbha, My dear Rukmiṇī, please do not misunderstand Me. The words which have affected you so much are not factual.

Kṛṣṇa understood that Rukmiṇī could not follow the statements He had made in a joking way.

I have purposely agitated you by speaking many words not applicable to your character, but I am surprised to see that not a pinch of your devotion to Me has been deviated from its fixed position. It is better, therefore, for persons who are simply after material happiness and not after Me to remain

He is the all-powerful, omnipresent Personality of Godhead, and by His supreme will He can not only create He is not forced to appear by any external agency, but He descends by His own internal potency in order

Kṛṣṇa, however, does not like any of His devotees to be proud.

Exemplary unalloyed devotional service not only can bestow upon the devotee liberation from this material